Phil Neville

Yeah, I mean, everything that we did was around sport.

It felt like in the summer it was cricket, in the winter it was football.

We always went to netball and rounders with my mum.

She played netball in the winter and then obviously rounders in the summer.

So we always, wherever we were, every single night it felt like we were out.

And then obviously when we got to seven, eight and nine, we started playing ourselves.

So it just integrated my mum and dad's sporting lives with obviously the fact that my mum and dad worked at Bury.

And then obviously we were playing as well.

It just felt like there wasn't a day where something wasn't going on.

Me and Phil used to go and watch United when we were younger with my dad.

I don't know what Tracy was doing, to be fair, when we went to... I know she was left at home.

Philip used to occupy the crease, the old Jeff Boycott analogy.

He'd stay there, he would stay there for hours at a time.

It was tedious.

Yeah, I mean, it wasn't just... I mean, our parents obviously just completely committed their lives to us in terms of taking us everywhere.

But it wasn't just our parents, it was our grandparents as well.

My mum was one of my dad in particular who would take us places.

And like you say, I think our whole life with sports, in some ways it can be a saviour for families really and for young people growing up.

And for us, we had nothing... There was never any time to actually...

lose our discipline and do something else or get sidetracked and get distracted because every single day felt like it was a sporting day.